How to Use ten in a Sentence

ten

noun
  • Over time, many more tens of millions saw them.
    — Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2026
  • So where will the the tens of billions a year come from?
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 May 2026
  • One out of every ten was in Broward.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 May 2026
  • For tens of millions of years, birds were king, not cats or wolves.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Some videos have even climbed into the tens of millions of views.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 29 July 2019
  • Listen up fives, a ten is coming.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Exo prices range from a few thousand to tens of thousands of pounds.
    — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Even so, tens of millions of litres of oil swirled through the Gulf.
    — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Seals and sea lions have been hit hard, with tens of thousands killed.
    — Sam Ogozalek, Orlando Sentinel, 23 June 2024
  • The missile can fly at very high speeds, likely tens of times the speed of sound.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
  • No one under the age of ten appears to have died from the disease.
    — Krista Langlois, Outside Online, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Each of these programs would cost in the tens of billions of dollars.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2019
  • The climate has been changing for tens of thousands of years.
    — Michael Wilner, sun-sentinel.com, 10 July 2019
  • Starshot aims to launch up to tens of thousands of StarChips per year.
    — Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 10 May 2018
  • In a matter of weeks, tens of thousands of tech workers lost their jobs.
    — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The fighter jets each cost tens of millions of dollars.
    — Helen Regan, CNN Money, 2 Mar. 2026
  • There are tens of thousands of ‘Rats who’ll be happy to fill seats.
    — Gretchen Kalwinski, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026
  • If inhaled, the lethal dose is in the tens of nanograms per kilogram of bodyweight.
    — Vera Thoss, Smithsonian, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The contracts were worth tens of millions of dollars.
    — Carmela Guaglianone, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Those honored here are just a handful of the tens of thousands who've lost their lives.
    — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 24 Apr. 2020
  • But those shrinking glaciers also draw tens of thousands of tourists to the state each year.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
  • This, combined with bloody street fights, left tens of thousands of civilians dead.
    — Laura Moserb, Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2024
  • The war has raged for more than three years and cost the lives of tens of thousands of people on both sides.
    — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Each missile costs tens of thousands of dollars.
    — Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But there won’t be a need to clear out tens of millions in cap space to revamp the roster.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Thousands were killed and tens of thousands detained.
    — ABC News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The result was a world war that lasted four years and led to the loss of tens of millions of lives.
    — Christine Adams / Made By History, TIME, 17 July 2024
  • That number is now in the tens of thousands and is climbing every day.
    — Tom Duszynski, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2020
  • These are solar farms that can power tens and thousands of houses at a time.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Google Meet went down for tens of thousands of users on Monday.
    — Emily Forlini, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025

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